Selected podcast episodes on psychology, economics, science, history and culture

Tag: The Seen and the Unseen

The Seen and the Unseen | 26 November 2018 | 1h 16m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Matt Ridley. Seamlessly links together the key ideas in The Evolution of Everything, which makes the case for the bottom-up emergence of order where we typically perceive a top-down process.
This distils the thinking of the author who has most changed my understanding of how the world works. Be prepared to listen at a slower speed. It’s worth it.

The Seen and the Unseen | 22 January 2018 | 1h 10m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Shruti Rajagopalan, who applies an economist’s perspective to understanding the persistence of caste in India. Frames caste as a problem of economic freedom, perpetuated by a cultural focus on villages, ameliorated by faster urbanisation.